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Taylor 2 - Performance and Master Class

Program: Airs / 3 Epitaphs / Roses Duet / Company B

Established in 1993, the six-member Taylor 2 Company brings Paul Taylor's dances to stages around the world. Combining Taylor's signature blend of athleticism, humor and emotion, "Taylor 2 is a miracle!" NY Times

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Paul Taylor established Taylor 2 to ensure that his works could be seen by audiences all over the world, unhindered by economic or technical limitations. Mr. Taylor worked with longtime colleague Linda Hodes to create a company that could accommodate performance requests as well as teach and provide community outreach. Mr. Taylor looked back to the 1954 origins of the Paul Taylor Dance Company for the structure of his new company: six professionals with a particular gift for his style who perform his work throughout the world.

The New York Times calls the Paul Taylor Dance Company "One of the most exciting, innovative, and delightful dance companies in the entire world." Vanity Fair calls Paul Taylor "The greatest choreographer in the world."
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"One of the most exciting, innovative, and delightful dance companies in the entire world." --New York Times

"The most inventive and versatile choreographer alive today... One of the few indisputably great dance companies in the world." --New York Post

"Paul Taylor Dance Company is perhaps the most beloved and respected modern dance company in the world, famous for Mr. Taylor's wit, its sunny expansiveness, its all-American optimism and its occasional forays into darkness and gloom." Dallas Morning News

"Paul Taylor's dancers are so terrific, you don't know who's luckier -- they to have him or him to have them." --The World of Dance, WQXR

"A major interest is in seeing how ingeniously Taylor has edited his work for a six-person ensemble -- half the size of the original... This version of Company B is not a patched hand-me-down, but a lighter and more intimate creation that delivers the same emotional knockout." -- Robert Johnson, The Star-Ledger

"Taylor 2 has provided many dancers to the larger company, but this is in no sense a student venture; the dancing was spectacular, warm, gracious and daring. The repertoire is one to make a Taylor fan salivate, four great and very different works in one evening... The more intimate Joyce stage enhanced many of the more dramatic moments... All six dancers were terrific." -- Mary Cargill, Dance View Times

"If modern dance is well, too modern for you, catch a performance by Taylor 2. Their performance of Aureole was ballet let loose" undeniably beautiful and incredibly romantic, but danced with a joyful abandon." --Kay McLain, The Herald-Sun Durham, NC